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Aluminum suitcase from downed US aircraft? A dealer from Texas offered a dented old aluminum suitcase through an auction platform some time ago. He wrote: "... interesting WWII era aluminum suitcase made out of a shot down American plane that was liberated from a Nazi factory near Stuttgart in...

During my ongoing research on German aircraft plywood from WW2, I was able to make another exciting find. In the archive Stefan Moosburg (whom I thank for the kind permission to use these pictures) there are several photos of historical aircraft plywood, which were taken in 2016 and 2022. They...

There are two other interesting additions to the topic: 1. I've searched the internet extensively for pictures of wooden German WW2 aircraft parts and came across a photo that shows the characteristic roller stamp overprints. It is a piece of plywood taken from the tail of an airplane with a...

Hello all, Interesting pictures! Unfortunately, the text is not very easy to read and it would be helpful to have more samples of writing by the same person, as this makes deciphering much easier. 17.6.41 Travemünde ein Hubschrauber landet und startet auf dem Turm? ..... des kl. Kreuzers Köln...

Hi Steve, thanks for the tip, I emailed Gosshawk Unlimited today. Let's see if they can help here. According to their homepage yes a really impressive specialist. However, there is still a problem, which I would like to present here a little more exactly: Plywood in the airplane occurs in two...

It is well known that Germany increasingly used wood as a construction material in aircraft construction during WW2 and especially in the late stages of the war. In addition to the predominantly wooden aircraft, e.g. Ta 154, the He 162 or the prototypes of the Horten brothers, there were also...

Hello Master_Ale_88, in the attached picture you can see a book from 1938 with the description for among others the "Fliegmaterial" 3126. The last digit (9) describes only the condition and not the alloy. From remnants of this material after the war were sporadically built suitcases or washbowls.

Exactly, because no one else was willing to buy them for a small price. We process only material that would otherwise probably end up on the scrap. We do this not only to preserve interesting pieces, but also because we don't want to pay much for our raw material. And - it becomes quite...

The part pictured was used as a suitcase latch around 1946. The corresponding case is made of aircraft aluminum (3116.5) and with aircraft rivets. A later suitcase model by the same manufacturer already has quite normal suitcase latches. I would now like to know what this particular latch was...

If I have understood the article correctly, it is not a question of a renewed removal of a grave site of a Jewish aviator, whose grave the Nazis had already destroyed. It is rather about the fact that a pseudo gravesite newly erected by two activists was not accepted by the state of Berlin as an...

Hi Snautzer01, I'll come back to the question of whether or not these parts are "used" or original aircraft parts. This is significant because otherwise you can't necessarily assume that there is a "matching" aircraft at all. It is therefore necessary to prove that these parts were originally...

I can only agree, a nameplate is hard to top. Especially if the aircraft type and manufacturer are indicated as on the usual German ones. On the other hand, you can see from our other question about an unknown wing - with a manufacturer's plate - that that's not always enough either. As a...

Thank you very much for the tips. "Late war" is already a helpful specification. After we built stools from the leftovers and some bookends from the then still existing smaller leftovers, I can't measure that anymore, unfortunately. Perhaps it is possible to create an assignment from the...

In 2012, a dealer offered us two larger sheets that came from the underside of the wing of a German aircraft. No one was interested in them, even though they were supposed to cost only 30 euros each. At that time, it was still quite common to find old aircraft sheets that had served as roofs for...

Hello, yes I saw this information in the text as well- and it is not accurate according to all we know. When we got the pictured part it was still a bit bigger and it was supposed to be scrapped. It was still full of soil inside! At the same time we were also informed that it had been found...